Former chief minister and senior Congress leader Harish Rawat stressed that the BSNL should regularise 242 employees as ordered by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal. He said this after administering juice to party leader and his chief spokesman Surendra Kumar who was undertaking a fast in support of the demand for implementation of the tribunal’s order. Various trade union leaders also supported Kumar in his demonstration. Stressing that the BSNL should regularise its 242 employees as ordered by the tribunal, Rawat thanked Kumar and trade union leaders for consistently raising issues of the working class.
Speaking on the occasion, Kumar said that he had sent copies of the tribunal’s September 2019 order to the Prime Minister, Union Telecom minister and the state’s chief minister along with a letter regarding regularisation of the 242 BSNL employees. Stating that the BSNL Uttarakhand circle chief general manager was not implementing the tribunal’s order, he has stated in the letter that during the hearing, the tribunal had found the BSNL involved in unfair labour practice and had directed it to regularise its 242 employees.
